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Where to put the shells from blessed Easter eggs: what the priests say
05.05.2024 19:46
Many citizens are interested in what to do with the shells of blessed Easter eggs.
The answer was given by the rector of the Moscow Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God in Gorodnya, associate professor of the Moscow Theological Academy, Archpriest Pavel Velikanov.
He suggests that people concerned about this issue think about “what to do with those bags and packages in which these Easter cakes were brought, the asphalt on which drops of holy water fell, and the air in general.”
"Sacred infection"
The associate professor warned that if we treat consecration as a kind of “sacred infection,” then we will not find a way out of the impasse.
He called for an understanding of the fact that blessing and sanctification do not transform things into an object “having a degree of spiritual radiation danger.”
This is “a return to the object of that original divine purpose that sin destroys,” the MIA “Russia Today” quotes the priest as saying.
He added that blessed water also does not acquire additional properties that could not be interpreted “from the point of view of nature.”
According to the abbot, people do not have any question about what to do with the holy water in the river.
We preserve this water as a sacred relic, because it is real water, which acts for the health of the soul and body of a person, he noted.
So what to do with the shell?
The archpriest summed up his reasoning with the following recommendation: believers can dispose of the above-mentioned shell at their own discretion.
For example, if it is a “food item” for someone, the priest is not against the egg being eaten with the shell.
But if for you it is just a shell that has fulfilled its purpose and can then be simply thrown away, send it to the nearest trash can and do not be embarrassed by anything, - Pavel Velikanov gave this advice.
Earlier we talked about what can and cannot be blessed on Easter.
